Bibliograph

Victorian Britain, Patrick Allitt

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Victorian Britain, Patrick Allitt

Language

eng

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instructional materials

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Literary text for sound recordings

lectures speeches

Main title

Victorian Britain

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sound recording

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Oclc number

914300170

Responsibility statement

Patrick Allitt

Series statement

Great courses. Modern history

Summary

Examines how the Victorians lived with social and economic contradictions and how Britain changed between the 1830s and 1900

Table Of Contents

The Victorian paradox -- Victoria's early reign: 1837-1861 -- The industrial revolution: 1750-1830 -- Railways and steamships -- Parliamentary reform and chartism -- The upper and middle class woman -- The working class woman -- The state church and evangelical revival -- The Oxford movement and catholicism -- Work and working class life -- Poverty and the "Hungry forties" -- Ireland, famine, and Robert Peel -- Scotland and Wales -- Progress and optimism -- China and the opium war -- Crimean war: 1854-1856 -- Indian Mutiny: 1857 -- Victorian Britain and the American civil war -- British in Africa: 1840-1880 -- Victorian literature I -- Art and music -- Science -- Medicine and public health -- Architecture -- Education -- Trade unions and the labour party -- Crime and punishment -- Gladstone and disraeli: 1865-1881 -- Ireland and home rule -- Democracy and its discontents -- The British in Africa: 1880-1901 -- Later Victorian literature -- Leisure -- Domestic servants -- Victoria after Albert: 1861-1901 -- The Victorian legacy

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